This is the automated installer tool for Rockbox. A quickstart guide can be found at GraphicalInstall -- this only covers first time installation, but should give you a fairly good idea how it works. If you have any problems, please read the changelog and issues list on the development page page before reporting any bugs!

Note: if the links in the table do not link to the latest version the binaries haven't been uploaded yet. Do not file bug reports against such a case, the release process involves multiple people and thus can take a while.

Packages

We do not provide binary packages of Rockbox Utility except the binaries in the table above. If you maintain a package for a distribution you can add it to the table below. If you do so please update the table when updating the package. Thanks.

Known issues

Please do not report bugs here -- this list is intended to hold known and verified issues. For reporting bugs please use the tracker as this also allows us to get back into contact with you.

Known accessibility issues

The following is a list of known accessibility issues in v1.2.3:

Tabwidgets don't speak the Tabtitle. Workaround: Use the Actions menu

Messageboxes don't speak their content.

Spinboxes and Comboboxes don't speak their content on changes. Workaround for Comboboxes: open the combobox with "space" before changing with "up/down"

First item in a menubar isnt voiced.

Screenshots

some screenshot of RockboxUtility 1.3.0. RockboxUtility looks similar on all platforms due to the used toolkit. The appearance follows the settings of your operating system. Note: Theming is done by Qt using plugins, which has limitations with statically linked binaries. The binaries provided on this page are statically linked for your convenience, this means that when using a theme that is not part of Qt it won't get loaded and might result in a different look than your desktop. This issue usually only appears on Linux.

(all) Support retrieving voice strings from installation (only available for recent versions)

(all) Allow selecting multiple folders when generating talkfiles.

(all) Support installing official release candidate builds.

(all) Add dedicated backup dialog. Backup functionality will archive the .rockbox folder on the player into a zip file, allowing to easily restore it later (Rockbox Utility doesn't support restoring yet, but this is as simple as extracting a zip)

extracting the downloaded archives previously didn't show any progress (most notably on players with slow hard discs like m:robe)

m1.0.4 (bugfix release) - released 2008-02-19

Complete Installation still seems buggy. Please use the install options from the second tab, until it's fixed.

The URL to the voice file was wrong for a few targets.

(w32 / vista) bootloader installation doesn't work due to UAC issues on windows vista, you need to use the manual bootloader installation for now.

Voice file creation is now possible with rbutil.

Support rbspeex as encoder for .Talk files. Its now builtin.

(w32) Sapi_voice script is now built in.

(w32) "system proxy" now also honors the ProxyEnable value (i.e. if you entered a proxy value in IE's settings dialog but disabled them rbutil also won't use them. Automatic proxy settings are still unsupported).

m1.0.3 (bugfix release) - released 2007-11-13.

Talkfile creation puts the _dirname.talk file in the wrong place.

complete Installation failed with "unsupported install method".

(w32) Sansa bootloader installation didn't work

m1.0.2 (bugfix release) - released 2007-10-18.

Enhanced device detection code, utilizing the USB IDs.

Two new translations (Chinese traditional and simplified.

Support for the sansa c200.

On Windows using the proxy settings set in IE5 is supported.

The new "Actions" menu should make it easier to operate using the keyboard or screenreaders.

Development

If you need a more up-to-date version of RockboxUtility you can try a binary build from current code. Important: those binaries are not supported. Please do not file bug against such binaries. If you have issues with them please tell us using our support channels. Also, those binaries are not updated regularly so they might not be newer than the latest release!